Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-09
State News.
PENORsCOT.


| road between Bangor and Portland have been
reduced, the change going into effect yester-
day. The rates tor first, second, third and
! fourth class freights under the reduction are
%, 20, Is and 10 cents respectively per one
hundred pounds. The rates before this re-
dncton went into effect were $3.50, % and Is
cents.
The movement for an electric railway in
Bangor is still IN progress, aud there are
good prospects of some decided work being
done here this season. At the meeting of the
City Council this week petition to definitely
locate the tracks in the city streets was sub
mitted. Without doubt this will be granted,
and if so, President Laughton says that he
has strong hopes that operations will com
mence within few weeks. The railway will,
it is thought, be fair paying venture for the
company and a great convenience for Bangor.
The electric lighting company has a
proposition before the city council special
committee for lighting the city. They pro
pose to use the incandescent light in the place
of the present gas lights and will probably
| adopt the Edison system. At present the
Bangor gas company furnishes lights of six
teen candle power for thirty dollars each per
year. The electric lighting people offer to
furnish lights which they claim to be twenty
candle power for twenty-five dollars each per
year, and they also claim that the gas lights
are not up to the full sixteen candle power, it
Is said.
The Electric Light Co, of Dexter now
have about $4,000 worm of material already
arrived. The dynamo will not be shipped
for some time yet. An Ide automatic steam
engine of 90 to IS horse power has been
ordered from Harrisburg, Pa.
The druggists of Dexter and Corinna have
apfpra2 n ohsprva
ular price list in the sale of patent medicines
The old method was vexatious both to dealer
and purchaser. The lew schedule is, in some
instances a very little higher than the old
prices but not enough to disturb the public
any.
SAGADAHoC.
President L. J. Gum, Stockholders F. L.
Thomas, N. S. Cutler, Edwin Stratton and
C. j. Day, all of Greenfield, Mass, passed
through Bath Thursday en- route for Inner
Heron Island, where they are making ar
rangements to annex more rooms to their
new hotel Madoekawaundo Lodge, and to
build new cottages.
In the death of Capt. Fisher, Bath loses
one of her most respected citizens. He was
very quiet in his intercourse with his fellow
townsmen. but there was nothing which tran
spired in the wide circle of his acquaintance
which did not enlist his interest and sympa
thy He was one of the most devoted men,
bers of the Historical Society," in whose de.
alterations he will be greatly missed,
Bath merchants think the interstate COM
merce law would help shipping. Reports
come from everywhere to confirm their be-
lief. On shipping matters Bath always leads
The water wheel that drives the Sagadahoc
Fertilizer Companv's works and the grain
and feed milk connected, owned by w. B. and
f p. Kendall. at Bowdoinham village, is a
curiosity in its way, and is probably the only
one of its kind in existence. 1t is 81 feet in
diameter, and sits upright like cart wheel,
with foot of its rim out of water at high tide.
The spokes are wide, and are set in a diago-
nal position, similar to the fans of a windmill,
the water operating on the one as the wind
does on the other. This wheel operates eigh-
teen out of twenty hours per day by tide power,
| turning one way with the incoming tide and the
opposite way with the outgoing tide. 1t is
admirably adapted to deep water where there
is no fall, where it is impracticable to dam
the stream or river aud where there is a large
volume of water. On its circumference
is heavy tire of iron, with
cogs, which gears into small
piniou on a shaft that enters the mill, where
there is reversible cog gears, which, being
shifted st each turn of the tide, gives the
same motion to the connected machinery.
| With one football of the tide this wheel,
operating both by the forward and the down.
ward pressure of the water passing through
it. gives about ffty-horse power. The only
dam needed is close line of piling to crowd
she water upon and to force it through the
wheel. Another good feature is that it is
harmless to fishes passing through or near it.
as it revolves with a moderate yet powerful
motion. The wheel being geared from its
outside surface to a small pinion the speed
attained is sufficient for any practical pur-
pose, and it has proved itself to be of the
greatest economic value, having been in con.
slant and heavy use since 1861. The cost of
the wheel and its setting ready for use was
| then only $500